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Aluta. A skin or hide is called aluta after it has been prepared 

 for making shoes and other articles. Hence alutamen or 

 alutamentum is an article made from prepared skins, and 

 alutarii are workers in skins and hides. [Cf. Alutaceous.] 



Alsiosa. The word alsiosa describes not those plants which 

 flourish in cold places, but rather those which cannot stand 

 coldness. [Obsolete.] 



Amuleta. Amuleta are instantaneous remedies against poisons 

 and witchcraft, and are commonly worn in rings or about 

 the neck. [Not a botanical term.] 



Amphora. An amphora is a measure which holds two urns or 

 eight congii. [Obsolete in this sense. Cf. amphora.] 



Apices. Apices are stamens (stamina) which shoot forth in the 

 midst of the calyx or bag (folliculus) which contains the 

 flower, and like filaments spring up from the lowest recesses 

 of the flower. Apices frequently have at their summit a 

 little knob-like structure which gives them their name. 

 [Obsolete in this sense. Cf. apex, apices.] 



Arbor. An arbor is that which rises firmly and directly from the 

 root with a simple, solitary trunk (caudex), woody and with 

 arm-like branches (rami). [Cf. Arbor.] 



Articuli. Articuli are swollen joint-like places (nodi) from which 

 branches very often develop. [Cf. Article.] 



Asparagi. The first shoots of herbs to appear above ground be- 

 fore the leaves develop, and very young edible shoots are 

 called asparagi. [Cf. Asparagus.] 



Arista. An arista is that which projects beyond the husk (gluma) 

 like a long slender needle. In short, aristae are, as it were, 

 stamens (apices) and horns of spikes. [Cf. Arista.] 



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Baccae. Baccae are the smaller fruits of herbs, shrubs, and trees, 

 which appear more sparsely and at greater intervals, as the 

 fruit of the laurel. And they differ from berries (acini) in 

 that the latter are produced in greater profusion. [Cf. 

 Bacca.] 



Brachia. Brachia of plants are those parts which spread out 



